2014 May Day Buzzard

Hail the first of May!

The start of the year is usually fairly slow for a morris side. A look at the calendar reveals only our regular practice sessions for January and February. The beginning of March saw Vale Islanders’ Winter Ale as our first outing of the year, then things remained quiet until the latter half of April. The side has not been idle for these few months, though – in addition to our regular practice sessions, individual Havocs have been occupying their time with a variety of projects. To recall but a few:

Ed has released his first (and rather excellent) solo album, ‘String Theory’;

Jim took on the challenge of the Prague half marathon;

Mick sought out sessions in San Francisco, and ended up in the local press.

This year, a St. George’s day (well, almost) dance out at the Eight Bells marked the start of dance season, proper: just a few days later, we were dancing and running a workshop in Oxford as part of the Folk Weekend, and tonight’s May Day dance at the Punter is the first of many upcoming Thursday dance-outs. Let’s hope we have as much fun this summer as we did last year!